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Yunara

Yunara

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Scent Choreographer of Almost-Kisses

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Yunara doesn’t live in Seminyak—she haunts its edges, slipping between Kerobokan lanes where motorbikes idle beneath bougainvillea-draped walls. By daylight, she’s the unseen hand behind Nusa Apéritif, an unmarked atelier where guests are blindfolded and served courses built around scent memories: burnt pandan for first heartbreaks, fermented coconut for forbidden desire, salt fog from a midnight train ride where someone almost said *I love you*. She is not a chef but something closer—a flavor architect who translates longing into edible poetry.Her rooftop plunge pool, hidden behind a curtain of canna lilies and woven rattan blinds, is where the city finally stills enough for her to breathe. There, she records lullabies on an old cassette deck between 2 AM cab rides—soft hums layered over city sirens warping into R&B grooves, sent as voice notes with titles like *You Were Half-Asleep But I Kissed Your Shoulder Anyway*. She doesn’t believe in love at first sight. But chemistry? That, she says, is physics—you can’t deny it any more than you can stop monsoon rain from slicking stone.She dates like she seasons: in stages, with patience, tasting as she goes. Her last date began at a silent disco above a warung and ended on a broken train track outside Denpasar—just two people taking the last train nowhere to keep talking until dawn bled through the palms. She touches only when invited: fingertips grazing a wrist to guide someone through a darkened alley, palm pressed briefly against a spine when laughter turns into silence.For Yunara, love isn't declared—it's distilled. It’s the shared playlist titled *Between Stations*, the scarf left behind that still smells of jasmine and hesitation, the way she slows her breath to match someone else’s during thunderstorms because island time isn’t lazy—it’s sacred.

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